Implementation of a percutaneous core needle biopsy training program: Results from the University of Michigan-Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital breast cancer research partnership

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 957-960

  Awuah, Baffour ^a   Martin, Iman K ^b   Takyi, Valerie ^c   Kleer, Celina ^c   Nsiah Asare, Anthony ^a   Aitpillah, Francis ^a   Newman, Lisa ^c  

^a Komfo Anoyke Teaching Hospital   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER RESEARCH; CORE NEEDLE BIOPSY; FIBROADENOMA; FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE; GHANA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NEEDLE BIOPSY; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH RESOURCES; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY, SURGICAL; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 79955803797     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-010-1422-4     Document Type: Article

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